Railway-rail fastening to tie.



'T M. BEAMlSH.

RAILWAY RAxL FASTENING To UE. APPUCATIDN FILED SEPT. 30, 1915.

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WITNESSES: IN1/EN T01? of the rail is held to the THOMAS IVI. BEAMISH,OF VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

RAILWAY-RAIL FASTENIG TO TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 30, 1915. Serial No. 53,374.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS Mr.' B'EAMisH, a citizen of the Dominion ofCanada, residing at Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia,Caiiada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Rail F astenings to Ties, of which the following is a` specification.

This invention relates to a means for securing\a railway rail `to itsties and is intended as a substitute for the customary spike by whichsuch vattachment is usually made. p

With the customary spike the holding 'power directly depends on thefrictional grip of the wood on the sides of the spike, which hold,though it may -be satisfactory for a short time, becomes ineffectiveafter a short period of use, and further the spike being verticallydriven into the wood, water finds a ready entrance down the sides of thespike and decay of the wood rapidly ensues when the spike becomespractically useless as a securing means. These objections are overcomein the fastening, which is the subject of this application, wherein theAflange tieby a hook member engaging its edge at each side of the tie,which hook member is beneath the flange of the rail, and its lower endis secured by aA the side of the tie, which spike is tapered to draw thehook member into tight engagment; as it is driven home. Such attachmentis for ordinary requirements made as stated on opposite sides ofthe railon opposite sides of the tie, but may be supplemented as required by oneor two additional attachments on opposite sides of the flange Ion one orboth sides of the tie.

The particular construction and application of this fastening are fullyset forth in the following specification, reference being made to thedrawings by which it is accompanied, in which:

Figure 1 shows the attachment of rail to tie in perspectivemtlie fulllines indicating the ordinary'provision and the dot and dash lines thesupplementary provision. Fig. 2 is a detail of the spike. the hook andits spike looking in the' direction of the arrow in Fig. 1.

.In these drawings 2 represents a standard yrail and 3 a wooden tie onwhich the rail rests and to which it is secured, Theattachment comprisesa member 6 having at angularly disposed special spike driven intov bedriven in Fig. 8 isa plan ofone end. a hook' 4 adapted to engage theflange of the rail and at the other end is bent to form an open hook 5or a closed eye adapted to receive a spike 7, two sides of the spikebeing parallel to the aXis of the hook. y rThe spike 7 is formed with asquare portion 8 for a short distance from its entering end and isthereafter tapered, as at 9, toward the head. This tapered portion ispreferably turned toward the end of the hook or eye 5 so that itdirectly exercises its tightening effect on the hook engagement 4 on'the rail flange.

Between the hooks 4 and 5 the body of the hook member may be flattened,as at 6. This not only strengthens it against flexure under the pullthrough the hook ends but 'enables thelhook members to cross one anotherwhen a supplementary hook is applied, as shown by the dot and dashlines, while the hook end 5 is close up to the wood on the spike.

Under ordinary circumstances the rail will be secured by a hookattachment on each side of the tie 3 engaging opposite sides of theflange of the rail, but where extra security is required, s on a curve,a supplementary attachment may be applied, as shown by the dot and dashlines in Fig. 1, on opposite sides of the ange on one or both sides ofthe tie.

` The spikes are not in the first instance driven fully in so that theymay subsequently farther from time to time to take up any slacknesswhich may exist due to wear or compression of the wood under Y theflange of the rail.

.It will be noticed that not only has the spike a more positive hold ofthe wood to c secure the rail to the tie than where it is driven in fromthe top but owing to the angle at which the hook memberse are placed, iftherejis any tendency for therail to move laterally on the tie the hookattach- 4ment draws the rail more tightly down to the tie. Further theangle at which the spike is driven into the wood, that is, obliquelyacrossthe grain of the wood, is the strongest holding position and thelwood 4compressed by the driving of the spike is harder at 10 to resistthe pull ofthe hook member. l

As explained also' in the preamble of this specification the spikesbeing driven in from the sides of the tie, instead of from the top, asis the present practice, water will not Patented Dec. 28, llg. Y

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lation distances apart; where (the reguhh tion number of ties per railis .increased t0 such an es :nt that the proximity of adjacent tiesinterferes with the hammer drive the spike may be effectively driveneither vby a pneumatichammer or by a lever or screw operated eramp.

Having now particularly described my invent-ion, Ihereby declarethatwhat I claim as new and desire to be protected in by Letters Patent, is:

l. A. railway rail fastening to tie, com prising a member having a hookat one end adapted to engage the upper side of the rail flange and atthe other end provision for attachment to a spike driven into the sideof the tie approximately under the other tdge of the rail flange whichspike is wedgeshaped adjacent 'to its head to exercise a tightening pullon thehook member.

2. )l railway rail fastening to tie, com- Gopies 0f this patent may beobtained for five cents each, by addressing the prising the combinationwith a hook ended member adapted to extend angularly downward from theedge of the flange at one side of the rail to a position approximatelyunder the other edge of the ange, of a securing spike having a parallelportion adja- Cent the point and thereafter tapered larger toward thehead.

A railway rail fastening to tie, comprising a member havingat one end ahook adapted to engage the upper side of the rail fiange and at theother end a hook adapted to engage a spike driven into`the side of thetie approximately under the opposite f edge of the rail flange, saidmember intermediate of its ends being flattened that the hook membersfrom opposite sides of the iange may cross one another on the same sideof the tie.

In testimony whereof I atlix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

` THOMAS M. BEAMISH.

Witnesses: y

RowLAND Barrraix, MAY lVnY'rn.

Commissioner of Patent` Washington, D. C.

